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Cisco Digital Media Suite is a product family that consists of Cisco Digital Media Manager (DMM) appliances, Cisco Digital Media Player (DMP) endpoints, associated software components, and hardware peripherals.
To set up and configure a DMM appliance, you must access some basic settings and controls through DMM and Appliance Administrative Interface (AAI).
Using AAI, you can configure the appliance network, time, logging, certificate, and failover settings. You can also start and stop specific services, reboot or shut down the appliance, and back up or restore configurations.
This chapter explains how to access and use the AAI interface. It includes these sections.
•Requirements to Set Up an Appliance
•Prepare to Set Up an Appliance
This document describes how to set up and administer Cisco Digital Media Manager 5.4.x on a UCS C210 server (Cisco part number DMM-SVR-C210-K9).
•To understand the client system requirements to use Cisco DMS products or to learn about known issues and late-breaking information, see Release Notes for Cisco Digital Media Suite 5.4.x on Cisco.com.
•To obtain documentation that you require for other Cisco DMS components, see Guide to Documentation for Cisco Digital Media Suite on Cisco.com.
Complete these steps before you set up and configure an appliance.
Procedure
Step 1 Decide which networked computer you will use to administer the appliance remotely.
Step 2 On that computer, install and set up the necessary client software according to the client system requirements in Release Notes for Cisco Digital Media Suite 5.4.x on Cisco.com.
Step 3 Ensure that authorized users of your Cisco DMM appliance can send and receive packets through TCP ports 8080 and 8443.
Step 4 Ensure that a DNS entry has been created and published for your DMM appliance.
Step 5 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
You can access AAI in two ways.
•Keyboard and monitor attached to the appliance.
•SSH terminal session to the appliance.
To start AAI from the appliance login prompt, enter the username admin and password that you specified for the admin account when you first configured the appliance.
When you log in, the IP address, server type and version appear above the menu.
To see options or change selections in AAI, do any of the following.
•To highlight an option, move between text input fields, or to navigate through the list of options, press the Up/Down arrow keys.
•To select or deselect a highlighted option, press Space.
•To highlight the buttons at the bottom of the screen, press Tab.
•To select the highlighted button, press Enter.